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Study: Vaccines have saved 37M lives, mostly children, since 2000
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Researchers say that since 2000, vaccines have prevented more than 37 million deaths and they re expected to prevent more than 20 million more over the next decade. File Photo by Adam Gregor/Shutterstock
They re medical miracles: A new report finds that vaccines against 10 major diseases prevented 37 million deaths between 2000 and 2019 in low- and middle-income countries worldwide, with young children benefiting most.
Vaccinations are also projected to prevent a total of 69 million deaths between 2000 and 2030, researchers say.
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Their modeling study also shows that vaccination against the 10 diseases including measles, rotavirus, HPV and hepatitis B means that people born in 2019 will have a 72% lower risk of death from those diseases over their lifetime.